Chris Inglis, Biden's Top Cyber Adviser, Plans To Leave Government 27
National Cyber Director Chris Inglis is leaving the government in the next few months, Politico reports, citing a former U.S. official and a second person familiar with the matter. From the report: For 17 months, Inglis has served as the inaugural holder of a new position as President Joe Biden's top adviser on a range of cybersecurity issues, including the protection of vital U.S. infrastructure from hackers and efforts to improve the government's own digital defenses. "He's done what he came to do -- build an office that's going to stand the test of time," said the former U.S. official, who requested anonymity to discuss an internal personnel matter.
Inglis plans to leave sometime in January, the former official said. Inglis declined to comment on the record. Inglis never said how long he expected to say, and it was unclear if he had moved up his departure timeline. Inglis took office in July 2021 following unanimous Senate confirmation, and since then, he has steadily built up his new team by hiring outside experts and recruiting cybersecurity officials from other agencies. Inglis, a former National Security Agency deputy director, repeatedly described his job as a coordinator of the government's often disparate cybersecurity activities, someone who measured his success by whether the government was increasingly speaking with one voice on cyber issues.
Inglis plans to leave sometime in January, the former official said. Inglis declined to comment on the record. Inglis never said how long he expected to say, and it was unclear if he had moved up his departure timeline. Inglis took office in July 2021 following unanimous Senate confirmation, and since then, he has steadily built up his new team by hiring outside experts and recruiting cybersecurity officials from other agencies. Inglis, a former National Security Agency deputy director, repeatedly described his job as a coordinator of the government's often disparate cybersecurity activities, someone who measured his success by whether the government was increasingly speaking with one voice on cyber issues.
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Right media loves repeating the luggage story in their ongoing attempt to smear LGBTQ.
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That guy smeared himself.
Hell, even if he wasn't a cross dresser, someone that is that high up on the Federal Nuclear program office stealing luggage would be a problem that needed to be dealt with.
I'm surprised he got a security clearance to begin with...but even so...he got caught once, and while they were trying to quiet that down, he went and did it AGAIN and got caught again...
What kind of idiot does this?
I don'
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> That guy smeared himself.
I mean the category; I thought that was obvious. It's the implied pattern "Person X committed Sin Y, and they belong to Group Z, therefore Group Z is rotten".
> What kind of idiot does this?
I suspect there is more to the story that we don't know about.
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Right media loves repeating the luggage story in their ongoing attempt to smear LGBTQ.
Do you think sending the luggage stealer to prison will set him straight?
Asking for a friend.
No news is good news (Score:5, Insightful)
When I read this story, I tried to recall anything I had heard about this guy, and then it hit me: I've heard almost nothing, not about this guy nor about anyone else in Biden's administration. No terrible tweets, no domestic abuse, no $30K office furniture, no private planes for personal travel, no approving child abuse on the border, no security threats in the white house, none of that crap. Just a bunch of folks trying to do their jobs, mostly successfully.
It's... nice. Not perfect; government can probably never be perfect. But nice.
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Seems he had a thing for stealing luggage from airports....he got caught once, and while they were trying to tone that incident down, he got caught doing it a 2nd time and they finally canned his ass.
Then again, who could have possibly looked at this guy and think he might have problems [google.com]?
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It has to do with the post he responded to
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And this is the most telling response. When faced with misdeeds done by multiple cabinet-level folks under a previous administration, the best comparison people can find is not an assistant, not a deputy, but a single "Deputy Assistant" who was soon fired. You are making my case way better than I ever could.
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goatse would have been better to look at than that
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Extremely slow news day (Score:1)
More msmash space filler as usual. Why should anyone care and what makes this news? No clues are given.
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What did he actually accomplish?
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That's the neat part. If he did his job well, and apparently he did, you'll never know.
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I tried telling my boss that once. It didn't work.
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Apparently he did? How do you kinow, if there would be no way to know? Oh, you took their word for it.
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And on the flip side, I've got mod points to use before they expire and I can't find a single comment worthy of any.
Colour me shocked (Score:1)
No doubt Inglis plans to take advantage of his unique opportunity to be the first one through this newest revolving door between government agencies and the corporations they're supposed to monitor and/or regulate.
Not the main point but⦠(Score:1)